Leaders deliberate government report with delegates

Leaders deliberate government report with delegates
(Xinhua)
Updated: 2008-03-06 00:00

BEIJING -- Top Chinese leaders including top legislator Wu Bangguo deliberated the government work report on Wednesday together with the country's lawmakers at the parliamentary session in Beijing.

Top political advisor Jia Qinglin and Communist Party of China (CPC) leaders Li Changchun and Xi Jinping also deliberated the report with deputies to the 11th National People's Congress (NPC).

The four leaders are all in the nine-member Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee, the top decision-making body of the ruling Communist Party. They all endorsed the report.

Wu Bangguo, chairman of the Standing Committee of the 10th NPC, urged the lawmakers from the eastern province of Anhui to well implement the Scientific Outlook on Development and carry out the Party's conception on economic and social development.

He stressed deepening reform and opening up, boosting scientific development and promoting social harmony during the discussion.

Jia Qinglin, during a panel discussion with NPC deputies from Beijing, encouraged them to pool together resources from all walks of life, make the upcoming Olympic Games and Paralympics a success, and grasp the opportunity to boost Olympic economy.

Joining discussions with the Sichuan delegation, Li Changchun underlined the importance of socialist culture and ideology.

He said public cultural resources should be relocated in a more rational way and the urban/rural gap should be narrowed to meet the people's growing demand for cultural services.

Xi Jinping, who joined the Shanghai delegation of deputies to deliberate Premier Wen Jiabao's report, spoke highly of Shanghai's fight against severe winter weather disaster earlier this year and its support for other snowstorm-ravaged regions.

He said reform and opening up are the driving forces of Shanghai's two-digit economic growth for the past 16 consecutive years, and urged the city to improve the people's livelihood in an effort to promote social harmony.